LRM7147-ROD 
 Early emergent and emergent readers will love learning alphabet and beginning phonics skills with colorful, tactile Reading Rods®. By connecting letter and picture rods, children develop valuable early reading skills, such as recognizing uppercase and lowercase letters, identifying phonemes, practicing letter-sound correspondence, sequencing letters of the alphabet, building first words and more. Color-coding helps students differentiate consonants (blue) and vowels (red).